Plastic Bags

Plastic bags cannot be placed in your curbside recycling bin. The recycling center at ACUA, operated by ReCommunity, uses a largely automated system to sort the materials that come in. The plastic bags get twisted up in the gears of the system and cause major problems with the machinery.

Please recycle your plastic bags at your nearest retailer. Click here to view a list of Atlantic County locations that accept plastic bags for recycling. When recycled together at stores, no sorting is required and it’s easier for manufacturers that
want to use them as feedstock to purchase them, which means they are sure to be
recycled into more plastic items.